My husband received a letter notifying that he won the lottery in the 3rd category which was held on 20th of May. He was approved for a lump sum payout of $615,810. He was to fill out a lottery payments processing form: needing name, date of birth, address, telephone, bank name, account number, routing number, bank address, and next of kin.
I was uncomfortable in pursuing the transactions. But my husband thought sure this was a legitimate thing and so we filled out the form and faxed it as instructed.
The claims agent, Luis Sanchez, the foreign service Manager of Santa Lucia Security Company SA, contacted us on 20th of September stating what we needed to do in order to receive the lottery payment. First, we were to go to the Western Union and wire $1950 to Frank Brown and fax my husband's drivers license for varification that my husband's name is legitimate. This money was for taxes for the Spanish government as we are non-residents of that country. Which we did do.
On 21st of September we received a telephone call from Juan Gomez from "the bank" offering us two options as to how my husband wanted to receive the transfer of lottery funds: 1) telegraphic transfer (receive funds in 48 hrs at named bank) and pay $9999.80 for such transaction, or 2) normal transfer that would take 5 days to receive and pay $7988.94 for such action.
Being not so smart, we chose the second option.in doing so, we were to contact Senor Sanchez, the claims agent, to get our instructions. Again, we were to go to Western Union to wire $2000 to Frank Brown and $2000 to James Charles. We could not send the full $7988.94 because the persons picking up the wired money could only carry the $2000 amount per person. And we were to call Senor Sanchez once the transaction was completed.
On this date of 21st of September we did in fact send the two transactions of $2000 each to each person named. We did call Senor Sanchez to inform him of the money sent and we were informed to send the balance of the $7988.94 in two payments in the morning of 22nd of September... Which we will NOT do.
On each ocassion of informing Senor Sanchez that the money was wired, he asked for the MTCN for varification, which was given each time.
I decided to investigate "this company" and found it a Rip-Off! We wish no one else be scammed or taken advantage-of like we were.
We also wish to get our money back as it came from our retirement funds!
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